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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Westville

Play School. Pre-Primary. Junior Primary. Senior Primary. High School. Westville. Deep soaked in Rugby, Cricket, sunshine, humidity, mosquitoes, hills and greenery. Methodist. Anglican. Baptist church. Back to Methodist. I didn't choose teams to support. They were who I was. Banana Boys, then Sharks and Springboks. I was all in. Trying everything. Every day. I've spent more time away from Westville than in it. I wasn't born there. But if you are looking for the bubble that birthed me, Westville is it. My starting point. I grew up during Apartheid. It ended 3 years before I left. I belted out Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika and raised our Rainbow flag with pride.

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Swart means Black (my surname) in Afrikaans. I am proud of my African roots but am a global citizen who believes that we should look to define ourselves collectively by the great things we can achieve. I believe in freedom of people and ideas and that we are moving towards a more friendly, happy world. Like a Donkey, I can be noisy, stubborn and ignorant - but like a Donkey I am willing to put effort in to change. The focus of this blog is happiness and learning - so basically, it is a blog on everything.